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Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

He answered, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know,

For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;

For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see but didn’t see them, to hear the things you hear but didn’t hear them.

For Herod had arrested John, chained him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

since John had been telling him, “It’s not lawful for you to have her.”

When evening came, the disciples approached him and said, “This place is deserted, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

For God said:

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies,

Then Jesus replied to her, “Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want.”

Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you collected?

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many large baskets you collected?

From then on Jesus began to point out to his disciples that it was necessary for him to go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.